Stanley Dobson Essay

Stanley Albert Victor Dobson was born October of 1894 at Barton Regis in Bristol, Gloucestershire to William and Mary Ann Dobson who were married in Twerton Somerset on the 27th of December 1891. At the time of his birth the family were living above 142 Ashly Road, in the St Pauls area of Bristol. In the premises below Stanley’s father ran a small Fruiterer and florist’s business. The premises remain today, serving the local community as a convenience store. Prior to this Stanley’s father had worked for the previous thirty years as a Nurseryman in the Bristol area.
Stanley also had a sister, Daisy, who had been born two years earlier and six half siblings - Christanna, Sarah Anne, Henry, William and John who died aged two, from Williams first marriage to another Mary Ann, who died in 1889
On the 28th of November 1894 Stanley was …show more content…
The census record for that year showing that Stanley having left school was working at home employed as a gardener and his father was working for himself as a Nurseryman and Gardener and that his sister had become a music teacher who was also working from home.
At some time between 1911 and 1915 the family moved again to 33, Treefield Rd., St. Werburgh's, Bristol. Native of Oldland, Bristol. It was from here that Stanley made the daring decision to volunteer to serve his country enlisting with the R.F.C as an Airman 2nd Class. Sadly, little more is known about Stanley. His military records were among those lost to fire during the Blitz on London in September 1940, when a German bombing raid struck the War Office repository in Arnside Street.
However, like Leonard Dixon and Albert Wood he would have been subjected to the exact same selection and recruiting process as they were, from medical examination to attestation and reception at Farnborough. Stanley was at the Recruits Depot Farnborough at the same time as Leonard and Albert and they may even have known each